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[FIX] powerpc/pseries: Fix reference count leak during CPU unplug

Message ID 1488973755-30269-1-git-send-email-bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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Bharata B Rao March 8, 2017, 11:49 a.m. UTC
The following warning is seen when a CPU is hot unplugged on a PowerKVM
guest:

refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 53 at lib/refcount.c:128 refcount_sub_and_test+0xd8/0xf0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 53 Comm: kworker/u510:1 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc1 #3
Workqueue: pseries hotplug workque pseries_hp_work_fn
task: c0000000fb475000 task.stack: c0000000fb81c000
NIP: c0000000006f0808 LR: c0000000006f0804 CTR: c0000000007b98c0
REGS: c0000000fb81f710 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (4.11.0-rc1)
MSR: 800000000282b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>
  CR: 48002222  XER: 20000000
CFAR: c000000000c438e0 SOFTE: 1
GPR00: c0000000006f0804 c0000000fb81f990 c000000001573b00 0000000000000026
GPR04: 0000000000000000 000000000000016c 667265652e0d0a73 652d61667465722d
GPR08: 0000000000000007 0000000000000007 0000000000000001 0000000000000006
GPR12: 0000000000002200 c00000000ff40000 c00000000010c578 c0000001f11b9f40
GPR16: c0000001fe0312a8 c0000001fe031078 c0000001fe031020 0000000000000001
GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000000001454808 fffffffffffffef7
GPR24: 0000000000000000 c0000001f1677648 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR28: 0000000010000008 c000000000e4d3d8 0000000000000000 c0000001eaae07d8
NIP [c0000000006f0808] refcount_sub_and_test+0xd8/0xf0
LR [c0000000006f0804] refcount_sub_and_test+0xd4/0xf0
Call Trace:
[c0000000fb81f990] [c0000000006f0804] refcount_sub_and_test+0xd4/0xf0 (unreliable)
[c0000000fb81f9f0] [c0000000006d04b4] kobject_put+0x44/0x2a0
[c0000000fb81fa70] [c0000000009d5284] of_node_put+0x34/0x50
[c0000000fb81faa0] [c0000000000aceb8] dlpar_cpu_remove_by_index+0x108/0x130
[c0000000fb81fb30] [c0000000000ae128] dlpar_cpu+0x78/0x550
[c0000000fb81fbe0] [c0000000000a7b40] handle_dlpar_errorlog+0xc0/0x160
[c0000000fb81fc50] [c0000000000a7c74] pseries_hp_work_fn+0x94/0xa0
[c0000000fb81fc80] [c000000000102cec] process_one_work+0x23c/0x540
[c0000000fb81fd20] [c00000000010309c] worker_thread+0xac/0x620
[c0000000fb81fdc0] [c00000000010c6c4] kthread+0x154/0x1a0
[c0000000fb81fe30] [c00000000000bbe0] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x7c

Fix this by ensuring that of_node_put() is called only from the
error path in dlpar_cpu_remove_by_index(). In the normal path,
of_node_put() happens as part of dlpar_detach_node().

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c
index 7bc0e91..b5eff35 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c
@@ -619,7 +619,8 @@  static int dlpar_cpu_remove_by_index(u32 drc_index)
 	}
 
 	rc = dlpar_cpu_remove(dn, drc_index);
-	of_node_put(dn);
+	if (rc)
+		of_node_put(dn);
 	return rc;
 }